Conkle's Constitutional Law - The Religion Clauses, 2d (Turning Point Series)

This law school study aid analyzes the Religion Clauses of the U.S. Constitution, providing a theoretical and conceptual framework for understanding and evaluating the components of the Supreme Court's constitutional doctrine. The Court has been influenced by a variety of embedded and evolving constitutional values, such as religious voluntarism, respecting religious identity, religious equality, promoting a religiously inclusive political community, protecting government from improper religious involvement, protecting religion from government, protecting the autonomy of religious institutions, and preserving traditional governmental practices. The author uses these values to explain and evaluate all of the major facets of the Court's constitutional doctrine.